{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2018-7408", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "An issue was discovered in an npm 5.7.0 2018-02-21 pre-release (marked as \"next: 5.7.0\" and therefore automatically installed by an \"npm upgrade -g npm\" command, and also announced in the vendor's blog without mention of pre-release status). It might allow local users to bypass intended filesystem access restrictions because ownerships of /etc and /usr directories are being changed unexpectedly, related to a \"correctMkdir\" issue." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/74e149da6efe6ed89477faa81fef08eee7999ad0", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/74e149da6efe6ed89477faa81fef08eee7999ad0" }, { "name": "https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19883", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19883" }, { "name": "http://blog.npmjs.org/post/171169301000/v571", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "http://blog.npmjs.org/post/171169301000/v571" } ] } }